25 May 2021
The Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC) recently released a set of rules under the Special Purpose Fund (SPF) regime to provide further flexibility and ease access to new markets. The rules provide flexibility and global competitive cost structu…
Read more »01 June 2020
The current COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe is not stopping leading African law firm, Bowmans, from moving forward. Less than a year after it announced it was opening a new office in Mauritius and entering into an alliance with Assefa & Associat…
Read more »25 March 2020
Following the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, regulation was largely criticised for failing to protect customers, prompting regulators throughout the world to undertake a review of financial regulation. Following the lead of a number of developed count…
Read more »30 November 2017
What is MiFID II? Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II is the sequel to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (I) which was introduced in 2007. This legislation, due to come in force in January 2018, provides an EU framework for…
Read more »18 September 2017
With the increasing appetite for investments into African jurisdictions, the South African private equity landscape needs to adapt in order to attract direct foreign investment and to facilitate the seamless investment and divestment in and from these j…
Read more »22 August 2017
Nigerian law guarantees investors the unconditional transferability of proceeds of their investments in Nigeria in convertible currency, provided that inflow and repatriation are effected through Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) authorised dealers - subject …
Read more »17 June 2016
London, UK, 2 June 2016: The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) today announce a series of changes to the leadership and membership of its Legal & Regulatory (L&R) Committee. Folake Elias-Adebowale, Partner at Udo Udoma…
Read more »31 March 2016
Helios, the pan-African investment firm, is set to deliver a postcolonial turnround with a deal for key divisions of Crown Agents — a company which was once a pillar of the British empire. The deal for Crown Agents Bank and its sister asset management co…
Read more »23 March 2016
Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) has acted as legal adviser to the management team of Emerging Markets Payments (EMP), the leading Africa and Middle East payments business, on the sale of EMP by Actis to Network International. Actis is the private equity f…
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RT @CDCgroup: This week we announced that G7 development finance institutions and multilateral partners, are investing a combined $80bn in…
RT @TLcomCapital: African tech through the lens of @AVCA_Africa's 2020 Data Tracker🔎: - $6.5bn worth of investments (2015 - 2020) - 55% o…
RT @FSDAfrica: We are hosting a stakeholders workshop with @EFInA_Nigeria and @GSMAm4d, @WFP, facilitated by @siaedge to share insights f…
AVCA Member News: African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) make follow-on investment in MetroFibre Networx… https://t.co/kWOgUrHz3m
RT @CDCgroup: We're welcoming @alueducation Founder @FredSwaniker to our next Insight event. Fred will be discussing the role of leadership…
